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ArchiveChapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg
… said I could not myself beg for my freedom alone, nor that of all my comrades. Her personal memorandum to the Minister of Justice, Kobie Coetzee, follows:…
Work In Progress
… The context in which the first issue of Work In Progress appeared was one in which the embryonic … associated with guerilla and sabotage activities of the…
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… been in South Africa now for 85 years, and in the measure of their possibilities, they have contributed to the prosperity and development of the Union. As…
PlaceGriqualand West
… The Khoikhoi was a nation of widely scattered migrant pastoralist clans, whose economy was not conducive to the creation of permanent Settlements. As a…
UCT defends stance on artistic freedom after Goldblatt pulls out by Paul Herman (News24), 4 March 2017
… Cape Town - The University of Cape Town has defended its protection of freedom of artistic expression, after the David Goldblatt Collection …
PlaceBlyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga
… One of the largest green canyons in the world, the Blyde River Canyon is a masterpiece carved over millions of years by the Blyde River as it cut through…
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 7 - … evaporated. This reflected itself partly in a rise of strike action, from the low…
ArchiveChapter 16 Tee Shirts, Music and More Solidarity by Denis Goldberg
… In the months after I started my incessant round of speaking engagements in 1985 I found that there was a wonderful array of t-shirts, badges and buttons,…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… the orders upon me at the union office was the first of a series of blunders on Swart's part. For many months the committee … discussing what action the…
”Malan Cannot Succeed Where Hitler Failed”: Interview To , Cape Town, June 1950
… "Never before in the history of South Africa have the national leaders acted so swiftly and with complete oneness of purpose in their determination to beat…
PlaceFlagstaff
… a Mr Owen, established a trading store on the site of present-day Flagstaff. The Town owes its name to their practice of running a white flag up a flagstaff…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
… have just ended the tenth and final chapter, is the climax of our story. 1 It provides us with a kind of promontory from which we can now, in this conclusion…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… Names: Mellet, Patric Tariq. Date of Birth: 1956 Place of Birth: Areas of Woodstock and District six, Cape Town, South Africa …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - What is industrialisation? by Emilia Potenza
… All That Glitters by Emilia Potenza During the course of the last century, industrialisation has affected the lives of everybody living in Southern Africa…
Education Feature from Frene Ginwala's Thesis
… Originally no provision was made for the education of Indians. The Reverend Stott of the Wesleyan Mission established a school for Indian … years later…
Black consciousness and the land question by Pandelani Nefolovhodwe, 17 March 2015, South Africa
… Introduction A Sowetan article of the 6th September 2013, states that 14% of audited land in South Africa is in the hands of the state, and 79 % is in the…
ArchiveThe Tay Bridge Disaster by Peter Ball (The Heritage Portal), 24 September 2016
… pride, as in pride before a fall, has been the ruin of many a man, no more so than Thomas Bouch, a Victorian … engineer, whose life and career were blighted…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… Communist Party. Robben Island prisoner, 1963-1973. Member of Parliament, 1994-1999. Author: Island In Chains By … began playing an influential role in the…
2003 New Year Message, 30 December 2002
… The year 2002 is rapidly reaching a close. The last month of this year will be remembered in the Southern hemisphere … in the year 2002, we know better and…
Early Beginnings
… British Association for the Advancement of Science RECEPTION ROOM UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW 5 September 1928 General Secretary C.P.S.A. [Communist Party of South…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… probably moved there before the sixteenth Century as part of the Bantu migration. Archaeologists have found human … in KwaZulu Natal in the nineteenth…
PlaceJohannesburg Art Gallery
… be built in 1910, and was initially housed on the campus of Witwatersrand. The gallery was overlooked by blocks of flats on three sides. To the east was one…
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
… Date of birth : 29 October 1938, Monrovia, Liberia. Ellen Johnson was born in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, amongst the descendants of original colonists…
Message to the Rally to Relaunch the ANC Women's League by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 9 August 1990
… from a land far away on this great occasion, the relaunch of the African National Congress Women's League. I should … my spirit is with you. We are together…
Resist Apartheid Campaign Message to Meeting in Johannesburg, 11 July 1954
… the Western Areas Removal Scheme--the forcible removal of Africans from their homes in Johannesburg to segregated … statement to be read at the meeting. Sons…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The State of Emergency was over. Lilian and I came out of gaol together on the morning of 31 August and climbed…
PlaceMahaking, formerly known as Mafikeng
… Mafikeng is the provincial capital of North West since 1994 and lies on the border with Botswana , it's about 260 kilometers West of Johannesburg. It was…
Document 85 - E. R. Roux, “The Native Exploiters: A reply to ‘A. Z.”’, Umsebenzi,20 April 1935
… 1935 I am glad that A. Z.'s article, "Is there a class of Native capitalists in South Africa," has been published, as it gives one an opportunity of re…
Notes from Books
… Jean Gelman Taylor, THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 The book…
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
… men in the Cape Province had a limited franchise. One of them, Dr. W.B. Rhubusana, represented the Wodehouse … The incoming government will be a so-called …